Community Profiles

Liverpool City Council Area - Liverpool Public Library

 

Community profile of the people/area

Liverpool City is located in Sydney's south western suburbs - about 25 kilometers from the Sydney GPO. According to the 2011 Census, Liverpool's population in 2011 stood at 180,143, 2012, 191,244. Land area of Liverpool is 30,552 hectares.

Liverpool continues to be a young City: the median age was 33 years in 2011. The number of Indigenous people in 2011 was 2,677.  Liverpool's population come from over 150 different birthplaces. The top ten overseas birthplaces in 2011 were Fiji (6,395), Iraq (6,114), Vietnam (5,230), India (4,213), Philippines (3,580), Lebanon (3,573), New Zealand (3,076), Italy (2,893), England (2,177) and Serbia / Montenegro (2,233). At the 2011 Census, English was stated as the only language spoken at home by just 44 percent of Liverpool's population. Around half of Liverpool's residents said they spoke a language other than English at home.

Liverpool City Council:  http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/

Liverpool Public Library: http://mylibrary.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/